Wednesday, July 30, 2014

I am a sucker for a deal. I love the clearance aisle, I love sales, and I love fundraiser stamps - especially fundraisers for OWH.

From time to time stamp companies produce fundraiser stamps for Operation Write Home. Recently it was Mama Elephant. Their "In My Heart" set has adorable children and sayings perfect for cards military personnel can send home to their loved ones.

Here are the first few cards I've made with the set.

I think this little girl looks like Boo from Monsters Inc., so I colored her that way.

If you're wearing jammies, you need to have a bed.

This is my favorite of the three, I love the look of bingo cards, and these little guys fit perfectly in the number squares. The yellow balloon is from Stampin' Up!'s Crazy for Cupcakes set. I had the balloon already colored on my desk. I cut it out and added a new string. I think it's perfect.

I've been making cards for OWH, or Operation Write Home, for a while now. On the OWH blog this weeks Midweek Throwdown challenged us to use Any Hero Soldier Image.

My military images are limited to a few Pure Innocence images from My Favorite Things, and a couple of digital images from Mo's Digital Pencil. Today I'm showing off the Pure Innocent cards.

I made several cards using the boy soldier and this image, for any hero cards. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of those cards, but I did send them out and Sandy's received them so they're on their way to our heroes.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Have you ever wanted to create your own patterned paper? Today I show you two ways to do just that.

Method 1

1. Choose an image in your silhouette collection of cut files.
2. Reduce to the size you like.
3. Click on fill page.
4. Select a background color and send it to the back.
4. Select all images and turn off cut file.
5. Print.
Note: There is no need to use crop marks with this method.

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